BHU JAMALPUR, India — Jostling crowds, dancers, flags and flowered arches welcomed deposed Fijian Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry on Thursday to the village of his ancestors. The people of Bhu ...

On July 13, after 56 days as a prisoner of coup leader George Speight, Mahendra Chaudhry was freed into a new Fiji, without a Constitution or an elected government, and policed by martial law.

A descendent of sugar- cane farmers, Mahendra Chaudhry was Fiji's first ethnic Indian prime minister--until he was taken hostage by indigenous thugs last May and kept hostage in Parliament ...

SUVA, Fiji, July 13 -- A hug and a handshake between Fijian rebel leader George Speight and Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudry, his principal hostage, ended the 56-day coup on this south Pacific ...

For eight weeks Mahendra Chaudhry, a descendant of immigrant sugar-cane farmers, endured beatings and death threats during his country's second coup since its independence from Great Britain in 1970.

Deposed Fiji Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry and 17 other political hostages were freed today after being held for 56 days by nationalists demanding an end to ethnic Indian political power.

After a two-month hostage standoff in Suva, Fiji, that started May 19, Fiji coup leader George Speight freed ousted Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudry and 17 others Thursday, proclaiming that the ...

SUVA - The deputy of ousted Fijian Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry said yesterday that the former leader was totally unsuitable for governing the country and should leave politics for the sake of ...